Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

We love, because He loved us first.

This is how we are sure that we love God's children, by loving God and obeying his commands

Hate

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Preserveth

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

Delivereth

Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival ??9 that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men ??for the faith is not held by all.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.